Subject: A secret history of America Posted By: J-.J. (norsemen@club-internet.fr) Date Posted: 1/10/2010 4:41:04 AM Number Of Times Message Viewed: 456

Before some airheaded internet users start a controversy in this forum ... Things should be clear so more about the press conference that Dan wrote about in the post entitled "Oliver Stone's upcoming documentary": Extract: Often an easy controversy target for his feature films, Oliver Stone won’t be dialing anything down in the run-up to his 10-hour television documentary “A Secret History of America,” which will premiere on Showtime later this year. Stone spoke on a panel at the Television Critics Tour in Pasadena Saturday. Before anyone add the epithet of Nazi sympathizer to the filmmaker’s long-accumulated list of vilifications, his collaborator on the documentary project, American University history professor Peter Kuznick, stood up quickly, attempting to re-assure TV writers that “We despise Hitler and everything he ever did, but we are going to try to explore Hitler from an historical phenomenon.” Disturbed by what he thinks is a grossly inadequate history teaching acumen in American schools and in mass media, Stone has sought to craft an alternative 10-hour crash course on the 20th century, full of what he believes are lost and under-reported crucial facts. “There’s a ethnocentricity to history in this country -- an America-first aspect to it. History, by its very nature, tends to be nationalistic,” he said. “What I’m trying to do as an internationalist is to get beyond the American point of view and view history as an international effort.” The filmmaker seems to understands this stance might make him vulnerable to certain media criticism. Full article: http://www.thewrap.com/ind-column/oliver-stone-tca-hitler-easy-scapegoat-12730 This message currently has had 2 reply messages posted. RE: A secret history of America -- 1/11/2010 10:46:34 AM posted by Jim RE: A secret history of America -- 1/10/2010 5:05:42 AM posted by dan